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Sat November 07, 2009
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(Daily Mail) Cool Scientists create mind reading computer which porn beer beer porn beer porn porn  (dailymail.co.uk) (20)
(Some Guy) Interesting A new study says internet use is not linked to isolation. Subby posted this from his mother's basement a few days shy of his 40th birthday  (wsbtv.com) (28)
(TechEBlog) Weird And this is why computer mice shouldn't have 18-buttons  (techeblog.com) (99)
(The Register) Unlikely Relax. Your Google searches for whipped cream and parrots aren't being added to your permanent record, you pervert  (theregister.co.uk) (28)
(Hulu) Video Carl Sagan hould have turned 75 today. Here's a little thing he threw together called "Cosmos"  (hulu.com) (161)
(The Good News) Amusing 10 ways Darwin got it wrong  (gnmagazine.org) (160)
(Some Guy) Amusing Most awesome photos you'll see today of a 1930's Russian Flying Fortress dogfighting a Nazi flying saucer, velociraptors suspiciously absent  (englishrussia.com) (80)

Fri November 06, 2009
(University of Georgia) Interesting Bad news: Another invasive species. Good news: It's a bug that eats kudzu. Great news: It also eats soy  (georgiafaces.caes.uga.edu) (55)
(Some Guy) Ironic Engineer says wind farm site is too windy  (newsvine.com) (53)
(AlterNet) Sick You like raspberry candy? How about raspberry candy made with real beaver anal glands?  (alternet.org) (85)
(Santa Cruz Sentinel) Interesting Monterey researchers starting to get worried about the gang problem. The dolphin gang problem  (santacruzsentinel.com) (27)
(Rock Band Aide) Spiffy Rock Band 3 will include more realistic instruments, teach you how to really play. At this rate, rock band 4 will include heroin and shotgun peripherals and brain-splatter decals for your wall  (rockbandaide.com) (83)
(Discover) Cool Boy to grow up to be the next Inspector Gadget: toddler gets a telescoping, prosthetic arm bone  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (23)
(PCWorld) Amusing Verizon calls AT&T's bluff, demands their suit proceed to trial, putting AT&T in the unenviable position of explaining -- in court -- why the coverage maps, despite being accurate, are inaccurate  (pcworld.com) (130)
(MSNBC) Cool New type of supernova discovered after analysis of spectrum, high squeeky voice  (msnbc.msn.com) (18)
(TechEBlog) Weird I'll take my bread shoes with a side of athlete's foot and toe jam  (techeblog.com) (11)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Could you survive a nuclear attack by uploading your city to the net?  (hplusmagazine.com) (54)
(The Sun) Scary Thinking of not smiling? This spike-equipped hat won't allow it  (thesun.co.uk) (78)
(Wired) Spiffy Have a landline phone jack that you no longer use? Why not plug in this nifty lamp that steals power from the phone company?  (wired.com) (98)
(Huffington Post) Interesting Scientist says Lee Harvey Oswald rifle picture is real, he can tell by the pixels and from having seen a few shops in his time  (huffingtonpost.com) (190)
(Wired) Cool Get ready to change your desktop background again: Here's another awesome image from Hubble  (wired.com) (23)
(Huffington Post) Cool She's hot, she's blonde, and she OWNS Kirk Cameron and his banana-toting buddy  (huffingtonpost.com) (319)

Thu November 05, 2009
(io9) Fail Large Hadron Collider shut down. Again. Due to French bread  (io9.com) (92)
(Huffington Post) Obvious Not news: Study shows iPhone users are smug porn-watching egomaniacs  (huffingtonpost.com) (53)
(ABC News) Sappy Old and busted: Jesus on a toast. New coldness: Mother Nature on a glacier crying  (abcnews.go.com) (24)
(Kotaku) Cool Gran Turismo 5 creator Kazunori Yamauchi on the game costing $60 million to make: "considering the size and scale of the game, I think it's probably a fairly small amount."  (kotaku.com) (121)
(WCNC-36) Followup Experts suspect cheerleader who went public with claims of contracting rare disease from flu shot might be a misdiagnosed case of attentionwhoreitis  (wcnc.com) (88)
(Scientific American) Interesting Good sprinters have athletes foot  (scientificamerican.com) (8)
(Discover) Cool Stars, gas, blow? It's Hubble, not a Lindsey Lohan party  (blogs.discovermagazine.com) (10)
(Popular Science) Scary The future now sending birds to sabatoge the LHC  (popsci.com) (55)
(Nature) Interesting Oldest American-made object ever discovered was manufactured in Oregon, 14,230 years before Wal-Mart outsourced it to Asia  (nature.com) (37)
(Slashdot) Asinine Facebook backdoor found, ogled  (tech.slashdot.org) (15)
(Google) Interesting Yellowstone scientists find mushrooms. Then they start seeing all sorts of weird creatures  (google.com) (16)
(Gawker) Scary Old people are sexting  (gawker.com) (50)
(Kotaku) Silly A Japanese company polled 500 men ranging from their teens to their 40's about which games have made them cry the most and came up with a list of the top five. There are five people who cried because of video games?  (kotaku.com) (343)
(Discovery) Interesting The man who killed Pluto talks about Planet X and the end of the world  (dsc.discovery.com) (72)
(My Fox DC) PSA Kissing boosts a women's immune system. Her dirty little skank immune system  (myfoxdc.com) (π)
(USA Today) Interesting Honey, could you put your head in my lap? I need you to blow up my seat belt  (usatoday.com) (86)
(Examiner) Cool Google and multiple telecom companies begin laying transoceanic fiber-optic cable between Japan and North America, say new pipe can easily handle USA's increasing demand for Asian, uh, multimedia productions  (examiner.com) (74)

Wed November 04, 2009
(Wired) Hero "For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."  (wired.com) (189)
(Kotaku) Asinine Modern Warfare 2 will be capped at 9v9. Bonus: Company brags that it'll have mouse and keyboard support  (kotaku.com) (284)
(Utne) Unlikely In a typical day of web browsing, your eyes will scan more words than appear in "War and Peace," and 90 percent of them will be misspellings of the word "Viagra"  (utne.com) (21)
(Scientific American) Obvious "What happens when Harvard scientists use a brain scanner to look for the devil inside?" Good question  (scientificamerican.com) (33)
(BBC) Obvious American company wants to raise the HMS Victory which sunk in 1744 killing 1000 men. It is expected to have a billion dollars of gold in it and thus raising it will be great for "cultural" and "educational" purposes  (news.bbc.co.uk) (47)
(Engadget) Followup Apple's App store passes 99,999 iFart App barrier  (engadget.com) (47)
(Some Guy) Amusing Finally an article that addresses the most pressing issue of the day: which country has the best electrical outlet  (crave.cnet.co.uk) (88)
(Scientific American) Unlikely Scientists claim "magic" is causing emissions from galactic core. I mean "dark matter." Yeah, "dark matter."  (scientificamerican.com) (99)
(Komo) Strange I can haz swine fluz?  (komonews.com) (36)
(CBC) Cool Study finds that female crabs trade sex for protection, as opposed to female humans who get crabs for sex with no protection or some damn thing  (cbc.ca) (26)
(New York Daily News) Spiffy New gloves allow people to use touchscreen phones, devices without taking them off. Dialing wand for fat-fingered folk sold separately  (nydailynews.com) (42)
(Telegraph) Cool Happy 20th Birthday to Wallace and Gromit, with love from Google  (telegraph.co.uk) (37)
(CNNGo) Silly Tokyo gets burger vending machine. The real ingenuity is: only one moving part  (cnngo.com) (43)
(Some Comic Geek) Survey So who's picking up the first of their Green Lantern ring set this week? New Comics Shipping November 4th  (downtowncomics.ning.com) (68)
(MSNBC) Spiffy Astronomers celebrate Halloween by finding the Universe's skeleton. Ooh, spooky  (msnbc.msn.com) (35)
(The Register) Obvious Oracle is surprised that European commissioners are struggling to reconcile of the words "Larry Ellison" and "free" in the same sentence  (theregister.co.uk) (27)
(New Scientist) Fail Stun guns, Tasers, Taser shotguns -- now everyone's worried about police injuring perps with a Taser grenade launcher. In related news, the cops would like to know if they could go back to just shooting people, please  (newscientist.com) (41)
(Neowin.net) Stupid AT&T to Verizon, "there's a lawsuit for that"  (neowin.net) (77)
(Daily Mail) Scary Scientists baffled by strange condition that's making bears lose all their fur, and SWEET ERUCTATING CTHULHU ON A PIMPED-OUT POGO STICK -- WTF???  (dailymail.co.uk) (98)

Tue November 03, 2009
(The Register) Interesting Ainus hetkel teadaolev võimalus ühendust katkestada on avada Safari ning samalt lehelt minna mõnele teisele lehele  (theregister.co.uk) (39)
(Slashdot) Obvious Windows 7 is significantly more resistant to viruses and WOULD YOU LIKE BIGGER PENIS??? YOUR BULGING MANTOOL WILL CAUSE HER SCREAM  (tech.slashdot.org) (165)
(YouTube) Cool Coolest video you'll see today: Entire Ares I-X flight captured from aircraft flying near point of impact (launch to splashdown). Bonus: Sweet prandtl glauert shock cloud on descent  (youtube.com) (61)
(Guardian.com) Amusing And now, for no particular reason, the sex life of seahorses  (guardian.co.uk) (28)
(Boing Boing) Sad Claude Lévi-Strauss is dead. We'll miss his genes  (boingboing.net) (39)
(Wired) Interesting One fifth of what makes you you isn't yours  (wired.com) (106)
(BBC) Cool Warning issued over white whale. This is not a repeat from 1851  (news.bbc.co.uk) (53)
(Wired) Interesting Scent of fear keeps male bed bugs from "traumatic insemination" of other males. You'll click for the bedbug porn  (wired.com) (43)
(Science Daily) Weird Evolution has a speed limit  (sciencedaily.com) (77)
(News.com.au) Interesting Afraid of flying? Yes, there's an iPhone app for that, guaranteed to bring you a few minutes of peace before it interferes with the flight controls and sends you all plunging to a fiery doom  (news.com.au) (40)
(BBC) Cool The most amazing hummingbird mating ritual you'll see, well, probably ever  (news.bbc.co.uk) (40)
(Some Guy) Cool NASA, X Prize award $1.5M to companies that pretended to land on moon. Companies will use money to build "Mars" soundstage  (pilotbug.com) (22)
(Network World) Asinine Unisys exec's all-too-sunny forecast for American IT pros: Cloudy with a great chance of unemployment  (networkworld.com) (78)
(TechEBlog) Cool When the going gets tough, you could either take public transportation or build one of these  (techeblog.com) (22)
(BBC) Interesting Child obesity 'is levelling off.' So, on the Doritos Obesity Scale™, this is a Spicy Sweet Chili™ level problem, and not at all at Cool Ranch™ levels as feared  (news.bbc.co.uk) (93)
(Telegraph) Weird Flying frog and mountain mouse among new species in danger of going extinct, becoming cartoon characters  (telegraph.co.uk) (4)
(Science Daily) Interesting Ultra primitive particles found in comet dust, sign to do series of really annoying ads for Geico  (sciencedaily.com) (8)
(Some Coco-Nut) Interesting Thermonuclear fusion and coconuts - strange bedfellows  (hplusmagazine.com) (35)
(Telegraph) Scary 10-ton Japanese fishing trawler capsized by giant jellyfish, three fishermen rescued by passing vessel. And so it begins  (telegraph.co.uk) (154)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting Scientists prove that new rift in Ethiopia is beginning of a new ocean. Ethiopian ministries announce immediate new coastal developments: Costa Del Lex, Luthorville, Marina Del Lex, Otisburg... Otisburg?  (physorg.com) (57)

Mon November 02, 2009
(New Scientist) Interesting Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smrt  (newscientist.com) (454)
(Google) Cool ... acg cct bac onb aco nat cca agt  (google.com) (35)
(MediaMemo) Cool Not News: Apple rumored to be planning subscription-based HDTV service next year to compete with cable. News: AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE  (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) (60)
(Google) Cool It isn't lupus. But just in case it is, there's a drug for that now  (google.com) (16)
(NASA) Cool Cassini to sample volcanic ash plume from Saturn's moon Enceladus by flying right through it. The plume, not the moon  (blogs.nasa.gov) (25)
(Electronista) Interesting Web traffic stats show Windows 7 launch drove users to upgrade from XP and Vista to Snow Leopard. Wait, what?  (electronista.com) (388)
(Live Science) Cool Creatures of the sea quiver with anticipation as they begin their long-overdue campaign against the Japanese  (livescience.com) (48)
(Slashdot) Cool Much like your mom's vagina, Martian soil is hospitible to exotic forms of bacteria  (science.slashdot.org) (32)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting In this economy, we obey the laws of thermodynamics  (physorg.com) (46)
(New Scientist) Interesting Studies show that nearly 14% of men and 9% of women between ages 25 and 40 are eligible for an exciting career in volcano god appeasement  (newscientist.com) (178)
(Network World) Scary Conficker worm: one year later, the gift that keeps on giving  (networkworld.com) (39)
(Yahoo) Interesting Another inane and stupid study found that negative thinking improves memory. What a load of crap. IIRC, Mecklenbräuker and Hager published the same garbage in the Journal of Psychological Research, Volume 46, Number 4, December 1st 1984  (news.yahoo.com) (28)
(Boston Globe) Obvious Some people need help to kick their internet obsession, says article you can only read on the internet  (boston.com) (37)
(XKCD) Cool XKCD provides you with a perfect way to keep track of the LOTR trilogy  (xkcd.com) (201)
(Some Guy) Cool The world's first Hotel in Space is taking reservations for 2012. "Guests can crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spider-Man."  (heraldsun.com.au) (35)

Sun November 01, 2009
(Science Now) Interesting One for the stats nerds: "A Concise and Precise Definition of P-Value"  (sciencenow.sciencemag.org) (50)
(The American - Journal of AEI) Obvious Science tries to answer who's smarter -- libtards or conservadunces?  (american.com) (134)
(websites that suck) Fail Some crazy people yell at you from the streetcorner. Some sit in a corner and quietly talk to themselves. Unfortunately, some of them make websites (danger -- may crash older browsers, low-memory computers)  (belladesoto.us) (96)
(PhysOrg.com) Interesting MIT develops intelligent in-car robot which reads your moods with facial expressions, figures out your home and work locations, advises you on best route to grocery store, and reminds you to fill up the gas. So basically a full-time, in-car wife  (physorg.com) (18)
(The Atlantic) Obvious Science: there are no real atheists, just waffly, lukewarm, namby pamby agnostics  (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com) (384)
(CNN) Obvious ♫ Time keeps on ♫ slippin, ♫ slippin, ♫ slippin. Into the future. ♫  (cnn.com) (30)
(Yahoo) Obvious 10 essential windows 7 downloads that OSX users had years ago  (tech.yahoo.com) (303)
(Psychology Today) Stupid Psychology Today asks: why does Fark.com hate children?  (psychologytoday.com) (199)
(BBC) Sad "Women not getting bone treatment"  (news.bbc.co.uk) (36)

Sat October 31, 2009
(NPR) Spiffy NPR: "Why Leaves Really Fall Off Trees." Here comes the boring  (npr.org) (41)
(PCWorld) Obvious ICANN haz untypable URLs?  (pcworld.com) (115)
(American Thinker) Interesting Gore predicts that oceans will rise 220 feet in 10 years, hair will recede  (americanthinker.com) (286)
(MSNBC) Obvious There might be a medical reason for seeing ghosts, such as menstruating or having an uncle who thought he was Saint Jerome  (bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com) (67)

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